Photo by Hiram Bingham
THE SNAKE WINDOW: MACHU PICCHU
In the flat wall of the semicircular tower is a remarkable window
containing holes leading to little passages in the wall through which
snakes might pass to chambers left inside the wall in which they might
have their nests. In the Temple of the Sun, in Cuzco, which is char
acterized also by having a semicircular building, holes similar to these
have also been found, and it is presumable that there are inner cham
bers also in that wall (see pages 472, .93, ' ;').
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Photo
by
Hiram
Bingham
WINDOW CLEANING
AT
MACHU
PICCHU
An Indian boy trying to cleanthe
moss
offtheexterior
ofthebeauti
fully madesemicircular
tower